Hi Christopher,
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:37 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Now *I* am confused. What does PgAdmin do more than giving the query to
> > the database?
>
> It builds it into the data grid GUI object.
But my initial question was about a query that does not produce data at
all (well, a response from the server saying it is finished). I broke
that query off after several hours.
I am now running the query from my initial question with psql (now for
>1 hour, in a transaction, fsyn off).
Some statistics :
uptime:
06:35:55 up 9:47, 6 users, load average: 7.08, 7.21, 6.08
iostat -x -k 1 (this output appears to be representative):
avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle
1.00 0.00 0.50 98.51 0.00
Device: sda sdb
rrqm/s 0.00 0.00
wrqm/s 14.00 611.00
r/s 0.00 1.00
w/s 3.00 201.00
rsec/s 0.00 32.00
wsec/s 136.00 6680.00
rkB/s 0.00 16.00
wkB/s 68.00 3340.00
avgrq-sz 45.33 33.23
avgqu-sz 0.00 145.67
await 0.67 767.19
svctm 0.67 4.97
%util 0.20 100.30
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